Spirituality is defined differently to different groups. Some claim a self-determined identity of spirituality having a sense of acknowledging God without admitting they actually have a relationship with a personal God. Others claim their spirituality is an inward awareness to divinity within and that they become one with the Universal Mind, a force of divinity one had came from and now re-enters. Christians believe spirituality is not of oneself, but a connection with God through Jesus Christ after indwelled with the Holy Spirit. We go through these narratives to dissect the truth, or at least what we think is truth in the Relativism of life.
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New Age spirituality is an inward awakening to your own divinity. To recognize the “God within.”
Gnostic spirituality is occult awareness of knowledge to bring one to a heightened spirituality of esoteric belief.
Both of these have a sense that man becomes (or realizes) God in himself, imagining an impersonal God as a mere “force” rather than an individual Person, denying an external personal Being who is separate from creation.
Christian spirituality is an indwelling of the external personal God through His Holy Spirit that influences your spirit to act in a manner pleasing to God. However, some Christians emphasize the acts of spirituality of manifestations as spiritual rather than the transformation of character into the fruit of the Spirit. So therefore many of the gifts are abuses or exaggerated to prove one’s spirituality.